In number 61. Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus,
vast, unmeasured, boundless, free. Growing as a mighty ocean,
give His fullness over me. Underneath me, all around me,
Here's the current of Thy love, Leading onward, leading forward,
To my glorious rest above. Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus
Spread His praise from shore to shore How He'd love it, ever
love it Change it, never, nevermore How He watches o'er His loved
ones, Died to call them all His own. How for them He interceded,
Watcheth o'er them from the throne. Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus,
love of every, love the best. Tis an ocean vast of blessing,
tis a haven sweet of rest. O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Tis a heaven of heavens to me, And it lifts me up to glory,
For it lifts me up to Thee. Be seated. We'll sing hymn number
355. 355. From every stormy wind that blows, From every swelling tide of foes
there is a calm. The sure retreat is found beneath
the mercy seat. There is a place where Jesus
sheds the oil of gladness on our heads, a place that all decides
for sweet. It is the blood of mercy seen. There is a sea where spirits
dwell, Where friend holds fellowship. With grim coasts and dirt far,
by faith they be, Come around one calm and firm sea. All other good we flee for ain't
contented, desolate. this pain, for how the host of
heav'n revealed that suffering saints no mercy seen. Are there unequal things we sow? And sin and since will last no
more, And pain comes down our souls to grieve. Open up with
me again to the book of Jude, the book of Jude. I'm just going to read the first
verse, and then we'll pray, hopefully, by God's grace, say something
about it. I guess everyone knows by now
that Mike and Dottie Curley that sat here, their son got killed
Sunday morning. A fellow shot him, killed him,
and they haven't got his body back yet. But please remember
them. Tough to lose a child. They were
on their way here. He said his son and his girlfriend
were on their way to a church in Rockwood. This young man,
his girlfriend's brother just walked up and shot him. Sad,
so sad. But, you know, that's what the
scriptures mean. You know, a man knoweth not what
a day will bring forth. And that's why, you know, that's
why people need Christ. Dottie and Mike, it wasn't for
the Lord. They said the Lord's holding
them up. giving them grace, and I'm grateful that they are. Let
me read this first verse here, and then I'm gonna, by God's
grace, say something about it. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ,
the brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the
Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called, mercy unto
you and peace and love be multiplied. our most gracious, glorious,
blessed, eternal God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
was the eternal Son, who broke into time and assumed our nature
in order to save us, redeem us by his blessed blood. And Father,
we bless you that you give us the privilege And it is a privilege,
a blessing, to meet with the saints of God this side of eternity. And, Lord, we're so grateful
that grace is what made us to differ. We could never have made
ourselves to differ. The only thing that makes us
differ from anybody else in this world is your grace. You made us to differ. The gifts
we have, you gave them to us. The sight we see, you gave us
eyes. The ears that hear, you gave them to us. And blessed
Savior, we pray that you would meet with us tonight. God, give
me the grace to bring a message, give the hearers grace to hear. And Lord Jesus, I pray now for
those who providence keeps them from coming. Doc and Janie, who Doc's doing,
so we're so grateful what you've done for Doc. And we pray for
Mike and Dottie, little Kiara. God, they face some awful hard
times ahead, some grievous times and some sad days ahead. Please uphold them by your mercy.
Please give them abundance of grace. And Lord, if it's Help
us to always pray for them and uphold them as we pray for one
another. Do these things for Christ's
sake. Amen. Page 32 in our course books.
32 in the course book. Jesus Christ is made to be All
I need, all I need He alone is all my plea He is all I need
Wisdom, righteousness, and power, holiness forevermore, by redemption
cruel and true, He is all I need. Jesus is my all in all, all I
need, all I need. While he keeps I cannot fall,
he is all I need. of righteousness and power, holiness
forevermore, by redemption full and sure. He is all I need. He redeemed me when He died,
All I need, all I need. I with Him was crucified, He
is all I need. ? Wisdom, righteousness, and God
? ? Holiness forevermore ? ? My redemption full and true ? ?
He is all I need ? ? Glory, glory to the Lamb ? My Redeemer, He is all I need. My His Spirit still I am, He
is all I need. He is all I need want to talk about preserved
in Christ Jesus. That's what he said, sanctified
by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. Hude was a half-brother of the
Lord Jesus, but he wasn't a believer in Christ until after his resurrection. I showed you that last week.
Neither did his brethren believed on him. And he lived a very,
very long life. The only apostle that lived longer
than him was John, the one who wrote the Revelation. He lived
till he was 96, and he lived a very long life, Jude did. And
he called himself a servant of Jesus Christ. Jude, verse 1,
he called himself a servant of Jesus Christ. Now, Jude rejoiced. His spiritual
relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ more than His kinship
to Him. You know, He thought more of
His spiritual relationship more than His earthly relationship. And we're the same way. We're
the same way. Our spiritual relations are dearer
to us than our natural relations. I much, much more enjoy my spiritual
brethren than I do my natural brothers and sisters. I do. You
know, I can spend hours with the Lord's people, two hours
with them, and you're over and done with it, you know. There's
only so much you can talk about. Only so much you can talk about.
And I want us to look at first four ways we're God's servants,
and what a privilege it is. God calls us He said, one time
I called you servants, then I said, I call you friends. Another place
we're called the sons of God. But here he's called a servant.
And I want to look at four ways we're God's servants, that we're
called his servants. First, we're God's servants by
way of covenant, by way of covenant, the eternal covenant of grace.
You know, God had an eternal covenant. Everything God does
is based on eternity. That's why it's called eternal
life and eternal damnation. Everything's based on eternity.
And we're just bound by time, but God's not. And this covenant
of grace was between the Father and the Son. It had nothing to
do, He didn't make a covenant with us. He made the covenant
between Himself and His Son. And He made this covenant before
the world ever began. Christ was the Lamb slain in
God's purpose, in God's decree before He ever created the world.
And being brought again from the dead through the everlasting
blood of the covenant, God brought Christ back from the dead. And
you know, he said this in Hebrews 10, 29, he says, those who count
the blood of the covenant an unholy thing and trample underfoot
the blood of Christ. Now you know what that means?
That means that people that count the covenant, count the blood
of Christ and the covenant of Christ as common, they count
it as common. It's not holy. It's not, they
count it as common. They walk it under their feet.
Whenever they say it's for everybody, they're walking it under their
feet. Whenever they're saying it's Christ died for everybody,
they're putting it under their feet. And when you count the
blood of the covenant, unholy thing, a common thing, you put
it under your feet. There's nothing common about
the blood of Christ. There's nothing common about
the covenant of grace. There's nothing, when God entered
into a covenant, He undertook, God the Son undertook to save
a people. God gave him a people, an elect
people, a chosen people, and every single one of them was
sons of Adam. Every single one of them was
lost. Every single one of them was rebels. But God, in His covenant
of grace, He chose before time who He would save, and He gave
them all to His Son. He gave them to His Son. How
many places? In John chapter 12, I think there's
six times that it talks about the people that Christ was given
to. Christ talked about those that thou gavest me. He gave
them to me, all those that thou gavest me. And then John 6, 37,
all that the Father gives me. So we were given to Christ and
Christ undertook to come into this world. to do for us what
we could not do for ourselves. And in this covenant, He obligated
Himself to redeem His people. And how did He do that? Becoming
one with them. Becoming one with them by coming
into this world. And now, how in the world are
we going to know anything about this covenant? That's what the
Holy Spirit does. He's the administrator of it.
Everybody has to be an administrator of something. Well, he administers
the covenant. He ensures that the covenant
is known, the covenant's revealed, and the people know who they
are in this covenant. And here's another thing that
we're, second way we're God's people, and we're servants of
God, by creation, by creation. You know, and when we say by
creation, that means that God owns us by title. He's got a
title to us. He owns us. And He can do anything
He wills to do. And He had not had this covenant
of grace, He created us. We're His by creation. And by
right of creation, He has titled us. You know, when you have titles,
some people say all the time, I got a clear title to this,
I got a clear title to that. Well, God's got a clear title
to us. He owns us. He made us. He created
us. But I thank God for this. We're
also His by new creation. That old creation, that's what's
passed away. But also by new creation. God
created a new creature. And I tell you what, he made
a partakers of the divine nature. He done this by a new birth,
by a new birth. I want you to look at something
with me in Psalm 100. Go over in Psalm 100 with me. Psalm 100. You know, You see he's the creator he's
the creator and You know the only creation
he's got that he saved was sons of Adam and He never you know,
he's he has elect angels and there's some angels that are
not elect angels And those are the angels that fail but he never
redeemed an angel. He never made a new creature
out of an angel, but he made new creatures out by creation
and then by act of creating us, giving us a new creation by a
new birth. Look what he says down here in
Psalm 100. Look at the first three verses.
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands, all that
are in the earth, is what it says in the margin. Serve the
Lord with gladness, that, serve him with gladness. Come before
his presence with singing. This is it. Know ye that the
Lord is God. It is he that hath made us and
not we ourselves. And this is what I like, and
we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. He maketh me to lie down in green
pasture. So I tell you what, first of
all, by covenant. Second, by creation and new creation. The third way is by redemption.
Third way we become your service, by redemption. Now what I mean
by redemption, that God set the price. God set a price for our
souls. And you know to redeem something,
you gotta pay for it. You gotta pay for it. And we
were redeemed by the blood of Christ. And that blood of Christ
is so powerful and so precious and so pure. It has such merit
and such effectualness in it that it's impossible for it not
to do what God intended for it to do. And by redemption, we
mean that Christ, it means to be ransomed. It means to be rescued. It means to be released. Christ
ransomed us. from the curse of the law, He
ransomed us from death, He ransomed us and rescued us from sin, and
then He released us to let us be free. And you know what we're
free to do? We're free to worship. We're
free to come to God. We're free to call on Him. We're
free to read the Bible. He freed us from sin and death
and hell, so He redeemed us by His blood and all by His life
and His death and His resurrection. You know, the Scriptures tells
us he entered once into the holy place with his own blood, not
by the blood of goats and calves like they did under the tabernacle,
like the priest did. They entered into that holy place
with the blood of goats and calves. Doe could never put away sin,
but he entered once, one time, into the holiest of holies. He
entered into the presence of God and His blood. He entered once into the holy
place with His own blood. And you know what He got for
us? Eternal redemption. You know how long we're redeemed?
Eternally. How effectual is the blood of
Christ? Eternal. How powerful is the blood of
Christ? Effectual. How powerful is the blood of
Christ? Eternal. I'll tell you what, if it's any
other way, it wouldn't be worth having. And all I tell you, the
thing that he redeemed us from, more than anything else, is sin's
bondage. Sin's bondage. And that's the
worst kind of bondage there is. That's the worst kind of bondage
there is, is sin's bondage. And this took the greatest price
that God could possibly demand. Look in Psalm, look in Psalm
49 with me. Psalm 49. You know what Job said? Job said, I know that my Redeemer
liveth. Now this, Job's the oldest book
known to man. But Psalm 49, but Job said, I know that my
Redeemer liveth and I shall see for myself. Cause he'll stand
on the earth in the latter days. Yeah. I have to take me a minute to
get there. All right. Look down here in
verse 6 with me. Well, yeah, verse 6. They that trust in their wealth
and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches, not one of them,
none of them, with all their wealth and all their riches can
by any means redeem his brother. nor give to God a ransom for
him. For the redemption of their souls
is precious. And when God does it, it stops. It ceases forever. That's how
precious it is. It took the blood of Christ to
do it. And you know, He said, He told Jacob, He said, Jacob,
fear not, I've redeemed you, and I've called you by name,
called you by name. And here's the Fourth reason that we're God's
servants. By consent. Willingly do it. We're willing slaves of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Willing bond slaves of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Willing servants. We give ourselves
to Him. We give ourselves up to Him.
You know, Paul said, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies
of God. By the mercies of God, present
yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, H-O-L-Y, unto God. That's just your reasonable service.
You know, there's a, I could look at it, we could look at
it together if you wanted to, but over in Exodus 21, whenever
they had a servant, a bond slave, they'd have them, you know, for
a certain length of time, and if they Had a wife when they
took him and they got in bondage to him. At the end of time, when
their time was up, or you know, they was gonna get set free.
But if they didn't wanna go and if they loved their master, what
they'd do is they'd take them to a door post like that, a little,
a door post. And they'd get their ear up to
a door post and take it off and punch a hole in their ear. Punch
a hole in their ear. And when they seen that hole
in their ear, what they're saying is, I love my master. I'm going
to stay with my master. I'm going to stay right here.
I'm going to do what he wills for me to do. I'm going to delight
in him. I enjoy him. I enjoy his presence. I love the way he treats me.
I'm going to stay right there. Oh, my. And I tell you what,
I tell you, I want you to see this. As servants, as servants,
we must give an account. We must give an account. Look
in Hebrews 13, 17. Hebrews 13, 17. You know, our
Lord said He gave gifts unto men. He gave gifts unto men. He said He brought a bunch of
people for them and started giving them talents. That means gifts.
And we're trusted with gifts. You know, God trusts us with
the gifts that he gives us. He trusts us with grace. Be stewards,
good stewards of the grace of God. Be good stewards of the
grace of God. You know, be a good steward,
a steward. And look what he said here at
Hebrews 13, 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit
yourselves for they watch for your souls as they that must
give an account." I have to give an account to people that I preach
to. I have to give an account for my ministry. I have to give
an account for the truth that I preach. And this look at it,
that they must give an account that they may do it with joy.
They may look at you and rejoice in you and rejoice in what's
good for you, and not with grief. Don't unblend them. have to give
an account for you with grief because you're a pain, because
you're a burden, because you're just not the way you're supposed
to be gracious, for that's unprofitable for you. And over in Matthew
25, let me show you this one, Matthew 25. Verse 19. Let's see here. 25, 19, yeah. And you know, this is where he gave
all the talis to one another. And after a long time, the Lord
of those servants cometh and reckoned with them. He comes
after a long time and reckons with him, reckons with him. Whatever God puts in our hands,
let's use it to his glory. Oh my, we must be faithful. Paul
said, if we seek to please men, we would not be pleasing God.
It's counted in a servant that he be faithful. May we be faithful
to our God. May we be faithful to his word.
We be faithful to Christ, be loyal to our Lord Jesus Christ. And when you consider a preacher,
just always remember this, they're just seed sowers and waterboys.
Seed sowers and waterboys. I know some preachers, I've seen
a lot of preachers, that they want a lot of recognition. But
I tell you what, if I've got any gifts at all, God gave them
to me, I've got nothing to glory in. And if I'm able to preach,
it's God that enables me to do it. If I have any understanding
of the Bible, it's God that gives it to me. I have nothing whatsoever
to glory in. Now look what a descript, three
descriptions of God's people who he wrote to, Jude wrote to,
back over in Jude chapter, Jude verse one. Back over in Jude
where we started. Look what he says about them.
the servant of Christ, the brother of James, to them that are sanctified
by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ, called." They're
sanctified, preserved, and called. Three descriptions. And you know
what that tells me? That tells me that salvation's
of the Lord. If He sanctified you, if He preserves
you, if He calls you, that tells me that salvation's of the Lord. because he did all of it. Everything
about this verse says he did it. He did it. He did it. And you know, there's always
been controversy over sanctification. I'm dealing with sanctification.
And you know, there's been arguments about that, oh my goodness, forever
and ever. How it's done. How is sanctification
done? What is sanctification? There's
those preachers, I've heard preachers preach that sanctification is
progressive. It's progressive. What they mean
by that is we get more holy and become more righteous. Now, we
know that's not right. I ain't making, you know, I'm
growing in grace, I hope. I'm growing in knowledge of the
Lord Jesus, but I'm not getting better in, you know, I'm as righteous
as I'll ever be and I'm as holy as I'll ever be. And then John
Wesley taught this, and I read it myself. You get John Wesley's
work. Look it up for yourself. And
I'm telling you what I read with my own eyes and seen in his works. John Wesley taught sinless perfection. He taught sinless perfection.
He said a person could be sanctified to the point where he could cease
to sin. And he started in college a group
called the Holy Club. And you had to have a holy life
and live a holy life to be in that club. And then look about all the,
you know how many wholeness movements there's been? I can tell you
when the wholeness movement started. It started a little after 1900s.
The 20th century. Started about 1903, 1904. And almost all holiness movements
started by women. That tells you that it's wrong
to start with. They preach on holiness all the
time. Holiness, holiness, holiness.
When I first time I went to Indiana, them people up there, women wasn't
allowed to wear anything less than a three quarter sleeve.
They had to wear skirts all the time. had to keep their hair
up, they couldn't, you know, and they had to dress certain
ways. I mean, and you can see that
today. You'll see people out in town, and the way they're
dressed, you know immediately that they're religious. You know
immediately they belong to some kind of a group that tries to
preach holiness by dress codes. But oh my goodness, do you know
holiness has nothing to do with what you wear? God sees all men
naked. Oh my. And then all these holiness
movements. And then there's the people that
have second works. That's the Pentecostals and holiness
movements. Second works. They say you're
saved, but you got to be sanctified. And when you get sanctified,
that's when you'll be filled with the Holy Ghost. You've got
to go through stages. Wouldn't that be awful to have
to go, I can't make, listen, aren't you grateful that the
scripture said in Ephesians 1, 3, all spiritual blessings are
in heavenly places in Christ. We are complete in him who's
the head of all principalities and power. Oh, by Paul was gonna
go preach to them, that's been sanctified by God, is what he
said. And so let's look at this. Sanctified. Sanctified by God the Father.
What does that sanctify? I've said it so many times. Sanctified
just means to be set apart. That's where the word saint comes
from. God said sanctified. You know, when he says somebody
be sanctified, that means set yourself apart. But he sanctifies
us. He sets us apart. He set us apart
And whenever he set anything apart in the tabernacle or anything
else, it had to be sanctified, it had to be set apart. God said,
this is mine right here. This belongs to me. It's going
to be holy. If it wasn't nothing but a spoon. But God said, it's mine. It's going to be used for my
service. And that's what God does. He sets us apart for a
holy use and holy purpose. What God says, you're mine. You
belong to me. I set you apart from the world
in election. I set you apart in power. I delivered
you from this present evil world. I delivered, I set you, I brought
you out of darkness into light. God sanctified us, set us apart. And I'm so grateful that God
did it. And oh, I tell you, loved by
God, God set apart by God Himself because He loved us with an eternal
love? Everybody needs love. Everybody
wants love. People look for love, and they
need to express love. But, oh, to be loved by God,
that would mean nothing unless He could express that love. And
He does. How does He do it? By setting
us apart. us apart. That's why we're called
saints. You know, that's the word that
we're a saint of, sanctified. You know, and you know, I'll
tell you what, how he done it. He sanctified us with the truth.
Father, sanctify them through thy word, through thy truth.
And oh my, and then look what else he says now. I'm going to
deal with the called ones before I do preserve. The called ones. Look what it says. Preserved
in Jesus Christ called. Called ones. This is how He sets
us apart. How does He do that? He calls
us. And this call is an effectual call. Peter says, you know, make, brethren,
make your calling and election sure. Well, how can you make
your election sure apart from your calling? That's what God
does, he calls us. You know, I said, my sheep hear
my voice, he calls us. He calls us, he calls us to himself,
it's a factual call. You know, for you see you're
calling, brethren, not many wise men after the flesh. And you
go through the scriptures and you find out that God, he, Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And you look at Abraham. Abraham was called. That's what
the scripture said. Abraham was called to go out. He didn't even know where he was
going, but he went out. God called him to go out. He
called every prophet. He called the prophets. Every
prophet had a call. Moses had a call. How did he
get a call? From a burning bush. You know, how do we get a call?
With this thing right here. This thing right here. That's
how we get a call. That's where our call comes from.
And through the voice of a man. John said, oh my, I'm just a
voice in the wilderness. That's all I am, just a voice.
And I'll tell you, beloved, all the prophets, I want you to see
something in Mark chapter three. Mark chapter three in verse 13.
Mark chapter three in verse 13. You know, you go through the
scriptures and there's so many people that God called. And he done it in such strange
ways. The woman at the well, how did
he call her? Supposing her sin. Supposing
her sin. But look what he said down here
in verse 13. And he goeth up into a mountain,
and calleth whom he would. What happened when he called
them? They came unto him. That's what happens when you
call. When they called them, guess
what they did? They come under you. They's up on the mountains.
I don't care where you're at. If where he at when he calls
you, you're gonna come. Sack ass, get out of that tree. Paul, get in the dust. Barnabas, come here. Oh my. How many times, oh that's
how we know we've been called. Oh, that's how we know. You know,
how do I know I was a preacher? How did I know I found out I
was a preacher? I didn't get up one day and say, I'm gonna
be a preacher. I didn't get up one day and say, listen, I decided
I'm gonna start preaching. That's not how it works. You're
called to that, and when you find out finally that yes, this
is what God called me to do, And what happens is, is that
you just start preaching. Somebody last year, you know,
I got asked to go places and, and, and would you like, you
know, would you like to come over and preach? Cause I understood
the Bible. I read the Bible all the time. Would you come over
here and preach for me? And I'd go over and I'd preach. And after
a while, it is evident that I was called to be a preacher. But
any of y'all doubt that I'm called to be a preacher? We've all got a calling. But
thank God He calls. And my sheep hear my voice. He calls us. And then look what
else it says here in verse 1. Preserved. Preserved. You know what that word preserved
means? It means kept. It means kept in Christ and for
Christ. Preserved means to guard something. to guard something, to keep something,
to hold it firmly, that's what it means. And do you reckon the
shepherd will keep his sheep? You reckon he'll guard his sheep?
You reckon he'll hold firmly to his sheep? Oh my, he'll keep
his sheep. Not one of them will be lost.
Not one, I'm telling you, not one. Not one that's preserved
in Christ. Not one sanctified. Not one called. Not one will become an apostate. Not one of them will leave Christ.
Not one of them will leave the gospel. They've been sealed. They've been preserved. Been
preserved in Christ. Paul says, you know, he said,
God preserved me unto his heavenly kingdom. That means he's protected
me and preserved me and kept me and guarded me unto his heavenly
kingdom. And look down here in Jude, verse
24. Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling and to present you faultless before
the presence of his glory with exceeding joy. Gonna keep you
from falling, gonna present you. Oh my, preserved. You know, this is one, this is, you're
talking about security, just that word preserved, you're talking
about eternal security, blessed security. You know, there's one
thing we've learned, every one of us learned this, and we learned
it early on in our lives as believers, that we could not keep ourselves. We learned that very young. Learned
that very quick. We could not keep ourselves.
We could not preserve ourselves. We couldn't hurt, we couldn't,
you know, people say, well, hold of God's unchanging hand. Listen. He needs to hold us with his
unchanging hand. How you gonna reach up and get
a hold of God's hand? The scripture don't talk about that. It talks
about God's hand. It talks about Christ's hand.
It talks about the hand of God, the hand of Christ. Is my arm
shortened? Is my hand too weak? How are
you gonna reach up and get a hold of God? He's a spirit. He gotta
come and get a hold of us. And when he gets a hold of us,
guess what he does? He never, ever turns us loose. We're held firmly, firmly by
God Almighty. and by the Lord Jesus Christ.
We're guarded by him. We're kept in him. We're kept
for his glory. And oh my, that shepherd. You
know, the shepherd's responsible for the sheep. Sheep ain't responsible
for themselves. Sheep ain't responsible for themselves.
You go where, you know, when we went to England and Ireland
and Scotland and them, you've never seen the like of sheep
in your life. There's sheep everywhere. Fields
full of black sheep. Sheep everywhere. Somebody had to be a shepherd
for them things. They wasn't just here yonder
and about and walked here yonder and all everywhere else. There's
somebody responsible for them. Christ is responsible for us. All right, now let me give you
this in verse 2 over in Galatians. I hope I haven't held you too
long. Here's the blessings for those
that's been sanctified and preserved and called. He said, mercy unto
you. Oh, I love that, mercy unto you. I need mercy. He said, mercy,
God give mercy unto you. And then look here, and peace,
peace. Where there's mercy, there'll
be peace. And then look at the, and love. Now I don't want it
just to get, Just one or two of them, he said, I want mercy
to be multiplied, I want peace to be multiplied, and I want
love to be multiplied. He said, I don't want you to
just have a little bit, I want it multiplied. You know, when you
multiply something, three times three is nine. So he says, multiply
that. Whatever God's got to give to
you, it's multiplied and multiplied and multiplied. God preserves His saints by the
merits of Christ, giving us His mercy, giving us His love. And
could there be anything that could separate a saint from God? Could sin? No, absolutely not. What about our circumstances?
Absolutely not. You can't lose God's love. He's
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and nothing shall
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Preserved
in Christ. That's a good place to be. Our Father, in the blessed name
of our Savior, thank you for allowing us to meet here tonight. Thank you for the attention of
your dear saints. And I pray that what's been said
would be a blessing, be an encouragement, be instructive. Though we've
heard these things so many times, the Apostle said, I want to put
you in remembrance. Lord, we have to be put in remembrance
of so many things because our memories are so short. Father, I again pray for Mike
and Dottie. Please have mercy on them. Cause
them to give them an abundance of grace. Deal with them as they
go through this terrible time of taking this child and burying
him. Burying him and having his funeral.
God help them. God help them, please, for Christ's
sake. Oh, how merciful, how merciful. Precious Lord, how merciful thou
art to me. Oh, how merciful, how merciful. Precious love, how merciful thou
art to me. Well, I'll see you next Wednesday.
Larry Criss, he's been here so many times over the years. Dear,
dear brother, excellent preacher, good preacher, delightful man. You come and give him a good
hearing.